Quotes by Lamb, Charles

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without >>

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behi >>

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of imp >>

Quotations about Reputation

His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputat >>

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. I >>

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha l >>

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.

Lamb, Charles